Chapter Summaries

Lin Ke trapped and subdued a mid-grade spirit flea, then continued exploring the cavern and discovered a group of spirit insects gathered around strange blue lights. He prepared to fight them, determined to capture them all.

• Lin Ke used earth spells and fireballs to confine a nearly invisible flea, then suppressed its resistance and refined it with Miaojiang Gu Art.
• Lin Ke recognized the flea as a mid-grade spirit insect and let it hide in his hair, while deciding to test its abilities before considering breeding it.
• Lin Ke collapsed the earthen enclosure and continued exploring the deep cavern, stopping the flea from sucking his blood.
• Lin Ke spotted strange blue lights and heard screeches when his mental power swept over them, revealing several spirit insects.
• Lin Ke kept his Amethyst Carapace on, drew a flying sword, and declared that he would subdue all the spirit insects.

Lin Ke discovered and refined twenty-six mid-grade spirit Ghost-Curtain Insects in a cave, but a powerful being confronted him and trapped him. Unable to move, he concentrated his spirit power in preparation for a desperate escape.

• Lin Ke recognized the luminous cave insects as Ghost-Curtain Insects and realized their lures made them valuable for breeding.
• Lin Ke separated the insects with stone barriers and refined twenty-six of them using Miaojiang Gu Art.
• A mysterious voice spoke inside Lin Ke’s mind, and he tried to flee with the Dragonfly Dash Art.
• The unseen being immobilized Lin Ke and threatened to use his blood to make a crystal curtain.
• Lin Ke recalled his earth techniques and concentrated his spirit power at a single point to break free.

Lin Ke broke free from a mysterious woman’s control in a cavern and escaped after warning the others that a Nascent Soul powerhouse was inside. At the entrance, he persuaded Huang Fuqi and the others not to report the imprisoned being to the sect, but to claim the cavern for themselves.

• Lin Ke used Mountain-Moving and Sea-Overturning and the Dragonfly Dash Art to break through the woman's control and flee as she cried out for flesh and blood.
• Lin Ke warned the others that a Nascent Soul powerhouse was in the cavern, prompting Huang Fuqi and the others to retreat toward the entrance.
• The imprisoned woman shouted to be released and called for Jade Capital Child as insects fled through the cavern.
• Huang Fuqi and Han Yun wondered whether they should report the powerful being to the sect, while Lin Ke decided they should keep the cavern secret.
• Lin Ke convinced the others to claim the surrounding land as their fief for ten days.

Lin Ke and four companions formed an alliance and chose him to claim the territory around the cavern. After swearing an oath in blood, they marked the area as Lin Ke’s, while planning to learn more about the Nascent Soul cultivator imprisoned below.

• Lin Ke proposed claiming the one-li territory, and the group agreed he was the best choice to lead them.
• Huang Fuqi, Shi Ping, Fang Du, and Han Yun urged Lin Ke to form an organization with them and pledged to share hardship and success.
• The five swore an oath in blood and drank together, strengthening their bond as allies.
• Lin Ke described what he had seen in the cavern, and the others considered using it as a trap against powerful enemies.
• Shi Ping said he would search the Scripture Repository for information about the imprisoned Nascent Soul cultivator.
• Lin Ke used his sect disciple token to mark the one-li radius around the cavern as claimed territory.

Lin Ke and his companions formed the Great Wilderness alliance and prepared to occupy the cavern for ten days while they explored its resources. As Lin Ke and Fang Du stood watch, a Golden Core Personal Disciple arrived with a vast mosquito swarm, recognized Lin Ke, and attacked him.

• Shi Ping suggested naming the alliance, and the group chose Great Wilderness after discussing its future and the cavern's resources.
• Huang Fuqi, Shi Ping, and Han Yun returned to arrange matters at their respective sect properties, leaving Lin Ke and Fang Du to guard the cavern.
• Lin Ke and Fang Du waited beneath the sect token, and a disciple of a Nascent Soul True Person recorded their occupation of the area.
• Fang Du told Lin Ke about the rumored Mystic-Walking Roundworm, which could live inside a host and help them cultivate.
• A Golden Core Personal Disciple swept toward them with a huge mosquito swarm and recognized Lin Ke as the person he had been searching for.
• Lin Ke took out the Amethyst Longhorn Beetle and told Fang Du to fetch the Butterfly Transformation True Person while he faced the attacker.

Lin Ke fled from a Golden Core pursuer sent by True Person Yuan Yong to avenge Li Le, while Fang Du ran ahead for help. As Lin Ke raced toward Butterfly Transformation True Person’s cave abode, he lost his refined Amethyst Longhorn Beetle and vowed to repay his enemies once he became strong.

• Fang Du fled to seek help while Lin Ke stayed behind to hold off the pursuer, who revealed he was True Person Yuan Yong’s disciple.
• Lin Ke used earthen walls, the Amethyst Carapace, and the Dragonfly Dash Art to escape the pursuer’s mosquito swarms.
• The pursuer struck Lin Ke and claimed he had a myriad-leak body, while Lin Ke cut away the flesh being eaten from his back and healed himself with the Sweet Rain Art.
• Lin Ke sent his Amethyst Longhorn Beetle to block the mosquitoes, but its death caused a backlash that made him spit blood.
• Lin Ke destroyed several Flying Swords to slow his pursuer and continued toward Butterfly Transformation True Person’s cave abode, despite hearing she was fighting a Giant Mud Swamp Frog.

Lin Ke was badly wounded by Blood-Devouring True Person and tried to escape beneath the earth while provoking his attacker. Blood-Devouring True Person threatened to cripple Lin Ke and infect him with a Black-Pattern Gu Insect, while Lin Ke gambled that taunting him would keep him from killing outright.

• Blood-Devouring True Person knocked Lin Ke down and mocked him as Lin Ke used Mountain-Moving and Sea-Overturning to flee underground.
• Lin Ke accused Blood-Devouring True Person of resenting his own weakness and fearing punishment if he broke the sect’s rules by killing him.
• Blood-Devouring True Person smashed Lin Ke’s earthen defenses, beat him, and threatened to plant a Black-Pattern Gu Insect in his Niwan Palace.
• Flea crept toward Blood-Devouring True Person unnoticed while Lin Ke continued to insult and provoke him.
• Blood-Devouring True Person grabbed Lin Ke by the throat, and Lin Ke bet that his provocations would stop the man from killing him outright.

Blood-Devouring True Person sent Black Mosquito into Lin Ke’s Niwan Palace to enslave him, but Lin Ke trapped the insect and planned to use it against his attacker. Butterfly Transformation True Person arrived and questioned Lin Ke about whether Blood-Devouring True Person had tried to kill him.

• Blood-Devouring True Person threatened to cripple Lin Ke and sent Black Mosquito into his forehead to control him.
• Lin Ke entered his Niwan Palace, seized Black Mosquito with his mental power, and locked it in a cage within his soul space.
• Lin Ke decided to keep Black Mosquito alive so he could potentially use it to harm Blood-Devouring True Person later.
• Blood-Devouring True Person ordered Lin Ke to lick the dirt from his boot, but Butterfly Transformation True Person arrived and intervened.
• Blood-Devouring True Person claimed he and Lin Ke had only been sparring, and Butterfly Transformation True Person asked Lin Ke whether Blood-Devouring True Person had pursued him to kill him.

Lin Ke concealed that Blood-Spitting True Person had attacked him, accepting his explanation that they had merely sparred. After Butterfly Transformation True Person intervened and left with Blood-Spitting True Person, Lin Ke returned to the Cavern post with Fang Du and began restoring his depleted spirit power.

• Blood-Spitting True Person healed Lin Ke with a Dendrobium Pill, and Lin Ke told Butterfly Transformation True Person that their confrontation had been a sparring match.
• Butterfly Transformation True Person offered to punish True Person Yuan Yong, but Lin Ke declined and said the dispute was personal.
• Butterfly Transformation True Person ordered Blood-Spitting True Person to accompany her to kill the Giant Mud Swamp Frog, and he left after casting Lin Ke a glance.
• Lin Ke told Fang Du he had kept quiet because the sect would likely go easy on Blood-Devouring True Person and reporting him could expose Lin Ke's ability to control Black Mosquito.
• Fang Du helped Lin Ke return to the Cavern, where Lin Ke began absorbing spiritual energy to recover.

After the group weighed ways to defend their cavern, they decided to pool spirit stones to rent a Golden Core Stage spirit insect from the Spirit Insect Cave. Lin Ke left to arrange the rental, hoping the protection would buy them time to grow stronger.

• Fang Du, Lin Ke, Han Yun, and the others discussed the cavern’s dangers and considered buying a powerful formation or an Origin Tier weapon, but found both too expensive.
• Han Yun suggested renting a spirit beast from the Spirit Insect Cave, and Lin Ke asked Zong Ya, who confirmed that rentals were available.
• Huang Fuqi proposed that everyone contribute spirit stones toward a one-month rental while he guarded the cavern, and he hinted that he might reach Golden Core within a year.
• The group pooled ten thousand spirit stones, and Lin Ke flew back toward the Green Mulberry Garden before visiting the Spirit Insect Cave with Zong Ya to choose a powerful Golden Core Stage spirit insect.

Lin Ke visited the Spirit Insect Cave with Zong Ya to claim a mid-grade spirit insect egg and learned that his Stinger Hawk Moths could make honey. Xiao Li relayed a formation master’s offer of fifty Mid-Grade Spirit Stones if Lin Ke could provide a queen bee, leaving him to consider the Stinger Hawk Moths’ unexpected value.

• Lin Ke inspected his Sect Grand Tournament rewards and planned to claim his chosen mid-grade spirit insect egg at the Spirit Insect Cave.
• Zong Ya explained that light-spot cordyceps could transform mortal insects but was difficult to cultivate without a spirit planter.
• Lin Ke and Zong Ya met Xiao Li at the Spirit Insect Cave, where she told them a formation master had bought Lin Ke’s Stinger Hawk Moths.
• Xiao Li revealed that the Stinger Hawk Moths could make honey from flowers, fruit, and even meat.
• Xiao Li said the formation master would pay fifty Mid-Grade Spirit Stones for a queen bee.

Lin Ke considered selling Amethyst Longhorn Beetles and asked the Spirit Insect Cave about renting a Golden Core Stage spirit insect to guard his home. After learning about the powerful but slumbering Dream-Eating Gecko, Lin Ke decided his naturally strong mental power might let him become its master.

• Lin Ke told Xiao Li he would not sell a queen bee for now but might sell Amethyst Longhorn Beetles at a higher price.
• Xiao Li estimated that Lin Ke could sell at least fifty Amethyst Longhorn Beetles for six hundred spirit stones each.
• Zong Ya asked Xiao Li about renting a Golden Core Stage spirit insect, but the available candidates had serious flaws.
• Lin Ke noticed that the Dream-Eating Gecko had strength approaching the Nascent Soul Stage but remained asleep because it needed more mental power.
• Lin Ke said his myriad-leak body gave him naturally strong mental power and proposed trying to make the Dream-Eating Gecko acknowledge him.

Lin Ke and Zong Ya visited the Spirit Insect Cave, where Lin Ke befriended the Dream-Eating Gecko and rented his services. After considering the unknown purpose of his Niwan Palace, Lin Ke used his tournament reward token to begin choosing a spirit insect egg.

• Zong Ya asked Xiao Li to keep the Myriad-Leak Body’s special properties secret, and Xiao Li led them to the Dream-Eating Gecko.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko tested Lin Ke with a burst of sleep-inducing yellow mist, then declared that he liked Lin Ke.
• Lin Ke rented the Dream-Eating Gecko for six thousand low-grade spirit stones a month and wondered how he could learn to use his Niwan Palace.
• Zong Ya told Xiao Li about Lin Ke’s Sect Grand Tournament reward, and Lin Ke showed her his redemption token for a mid-grade spirit egg.
• Xiao Li offered to show Lin Ke the best spirit insect eggs using the Insect Mirror.

Lin Ke chose a Whitegrass Snail egg to prepare a future supply of Whitegrass Pills, then returned to Green Mulberry Garden and began experimenting with breeding spirit insects. The chapter ended after a Flea mated with a male Blackgold Moth, which was drained and carbonized, leaving Lin Ke unsure whether the fusion had failed.

• Lin Ke selected a Whitegrass Snail egg and took the Dream-Eating Gecko back to Green Mulberry Garden with Zong Ya.
• Lin Ke visited Lin Can, who reported saving eighteen Insect Gel, and asked her to hatch an Amethyst Longhorn Beetle for Zong Ya to sell.
• Lin Ke inspected the captive Black Mosquito in his Niwan Palace and decided to keep it there until he could kill it.
• Lin Ke tried pairing a female Flea with a male Blackgold Moth, but the moth was drained and carbonized, and Lin Ke wondered if the attempt had failed.

Lin Ke failed to breed the flea with other insects, then discovered that the Dream-Eating Gecko could enter his Niwan Palace and agreed to guard it. The Dream-Eating Gecko’s interest in Black Mosquito led Lin Ke to suspect that the mosquito descended from the soul-shadow mosquito, but he postponed breeding it until after killing the Blood-Devouring True Person.

• Lin Ke tried mating the flea with several insects, but its strength caused each one to die, and he ended the breeding experiments without success.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko appeared in Lin Ke’s Niwan Palace, promised to keep his secret, and offered to guard the palace by eating leaking mental energy.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko asked Lin Ke to catch more black-spotted blood mosquitoes for it, but Lin Ke refused to let it eat Black Mosquito, whom he needed as a hidden weapon against the Blood-Devouring True Person.
• Lin Ke recalled Old Han’s account of the soul-shadow mosquito and suspected that Black Mosquito was its descendant, though he decided to wait before attempting to breed it.
• Lin Ke gave the insect remains to Lin Can and returned to the Great Wilderness Cavern.

Lin Ke returned to the Great Wilderness Cavern and joined Huang Fuqi and the others in defending their Disciple Token from thousands of Demon Beasts. As the battle intensified and stronger beasts arrived, Lin Ke wondered whether Golden Core beasts might be next.

• Lin Ke reached the Great Wilderness Cavern, told Huang Fuqi that everything had gone perfectly, and joined the battle against the Demon Beasts.
• Lin Ke used the Moisture-and-Egg Transformation Method to give Shi Ping and the others Amethyst Carapaces, then attacked the beasts with earth spikes and javelins.
• More Demon Beasts converged on the outpost, and the group suspected that the front line had been breached.
• Lin Ke returned Spirit Stones to his companions and urged them to prepare for a hard battle.
• A golden leopard at the Dao Foundation Late Stage attacked Han Yun, but his Amethyst Carapace blocked its paw before Huang Fuqi engaged the beast.

Lin Ke held off a demon-beast horde while his companions rested, then broke through to the Dao Foundation middle stage by replenishing his spirit power with spirit stones. He left the remaining beasts to Huang Fuqi and the others while he stabilized his cultivation and considered how many more spirit stones he needed.

• Dao Foundation late-stage demon beasts joined the horde, so Lin Ke ordered his companions to retreat and rest while he held the front.
• Lin Ke used three techniques together to slaughter the beasts, replenishing his spirit power with spirit stones as Huang Fuqi and the others discussed his Myriad-Leak Body and past struggles.
• Lin Ke broke through to the Dao Foundation middle stage during the battle and announced his breakthrough to his companions.
• Huang Fuqi and the others took over fighting the remaining Dao Foundation demon beasts while Lin Ke sat on a tree to stabilize his cultivation.
• Lin Ke decided he needed at least two thousand spirit stones.

After Lin Ke broke through to the Dao Foundation middle stage and helped wipe out the demon beasts, he introduced the Dream-Eating Gecko to the others and learned how formidable it was. While the group rested and guarded their newly secured land, Lin Ke spotted an approaching swarm of locusts and sensed trouble.

• Lin Ke spent all his spirit stones advancing to the Dao Foundation middle stage, then joined the others in wiping out the remaining demon beasts.
• The group fed the demon beasts' flesh and blood to their spirit insects, and Lin Ke arranged rotating rest and watch shifts as they waited to secure the land.
• Lin Ke introduced the Dream-Eating Gecko, which boasted that it could swallow White Dew True Person's nascent soul and praised Lin Ke's spirit power and divine soul.
• Shi Ping explained that the Dream-Eating Gecko could injure even Nascent Soul True Persons and easily devour Golden Core cultivators with weak souls.
• The Dream-Eating Gecko returned to Lin Ke's mind and refined his escaping mental energy while the others resumed their watch rotations.
• During his watch the next day, Lin Ke spotted a black cloud of approaching locusts, alerted the Dream-Eating Gecko, and wondered why the insects had passed the front line.

Lin Ke and the others confronted a Locust Fiend that commanded a vast swarm using formation intent, while concealed demon insects turned the battle dangerous. After Han Yun was badly struck and Lin Ke was sent flying, Lin Ke used Sea-Overturning to attack the swarm’s formation.

• Huang Fuqi identified the approaching swarm as an early Golden Core Stage Locust Fiend and warned everyone about its formation intent.
• Lin Ke, Huang Fuqi, and the others formed a wall of fire, but the Locust Fiend’s swarms pressed through it using formation intent.
• Lin Ke gave the group Amethyst Carapaces as they fought the locusts, which used their formation to attack like weapons.
• A concealed middle Dao Foundation Stage locust pierced Han Yun’s defenses and right arm, and Han Yun retaliated with the Blazing Oil-Boiling Art.
• The locusts broke through Han Yun’s firebird and shattered his Amethyst Carapace, blasting him to the ground, while other demon insects struck Lin Ke and sent him flying.
• Lin Ke gathered a huge sphere of water with Sea-Overturning, intending to shatter the Locust Fiend’s formation intent.

Lin Ke and his companions trapped the Locust Fiend’s swarm in water while the Dream-Eating Gecko found and killed the demon insect hidden near Huang Fuqi. After the group divided the surviving locusts, they learned Han Yun had broken through and considered how to divide the Locust Fiend’s corpse.

• Lin Ke submerged the swarm and used turbulent currents to expose the Locust Fiend, while the Dream-Eating Gecko struck and killed it near Huang Fuqi.
• The Locust Fiend’s surviving locusts lost their coordination, and the group dispersed the water sphere and thanked Senior Dream-Eating for saving Huang Fuqi.
• Lin Ke asked Shi Ping to check Han Yun, then discovered Han Yun had broken through after eight years of cultivation.
• The group divided the Dao Foundation locusts, and Lin Ke selected one male and two females for breeding in his Niwan Palace.
• Huang Fuqi offered the Locust Fiend’s corpse in exchange for spirit stones, and Han Yun said he would take it after the others declined.